Let us digress very briefly: It is true that we live in an interdependent system. Someone may have had a great teacher, true. And someone may have benefited from great infrastructure, true. Yet, one person creates a business, and the next falls into welfare dependency. That difference can only be explained with hard work, character, bravery, and intelligent choices.

That said, perhaps we are being too hard on President Obama. Perhaps he actually believes the words he uttered. After all, is this not his experience?

1) Did he not recieve a Nobel Prize with absolutely no action, including a proposal or an outline of his intent, from the Nobel Peace Prize committee? This is a GENUINE case of "Someone else did that", and Obama experienced it firsthand.

2) Before the killing of Osama Bin Laden, wasn't President Obama out on the golf course, somewhat oblivious to the events of that day? Didn't other men sacrifice life and limb to accomplish this act? However, didn't he immediately bask in the glow from a willing, sychophantic media, implying that he was solely responsible for this event? This is a ANOTHER GENUINE case of "Someone else did that", and Obama experienced it firsthand.

3) We still do not know how President Obama got accepted into Occidental, then Columbia University, and then Harvard University. We do not know what his grades were that permitted these college acceptances. How did Obama become the editor of the Harvard Law Review, when extensive digging uncovered only one article submited to the publication? Certainly all these events were genuine cases of "someone else did that", and he profited from that intervention.

So, it's clear to even a casual observer: Barack Obama has had many things happen FOR him, actions that were actually performed by other people, and he ended up getting the benefit. It only follows that he would assume that this is how the rest of the world operates. Therefore, when he sees a Steve Jobs or a Bill Gates, he remarks that these people did not create their business, someone else did it for them.

It's the only reality he can understand, because it is the only reality he has experienced firsthand.

While, a Gov’t official did conceive the idea, It was a private company that made it happen.

Bolt Beranek and Newman, a company who played a major role in creating the Internet, which was founded in 1948 as consulting company. Richard Bolt and Leo Beranek were acousticians from MIT who did private consulting on buildings around the country. In the Mid 1940s Bolt was asked by the United Nations to design the acoustics for a new building. Because of all the work that was ahead, he could not handle it all himself so he asked Leo Beranek to join him. At that time they hired another man whos name was Robert Newman to help with the work, which together formed BBN.

Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

No, the government created the Internet so wired digital communications could continue during nuclear war. Then, nobody imagined it could be so profitable. Private business commandeered the standardized protocols to make money.

Facilitating business should not be confused with creating it. All the government did was declare TCP/IP and related basic technologies a standard, which is a reasonable exercise of governmental powers (declare standards (no, nonconforming standards should not be censored)).

Occurs to me: insofar as the Obama wishes to equate the totality of the Internet today with its embryonic origin of DARPANET, so should he equate the totality of a grown adult human with an embryonic baby.

Here’s the thing: obama never did anything on his own and now he has to convince the rest of us that neither did we. He already thinks it’s true. He was speaking from the heart. Once he believed this I’m sure he felt so much better about himself. That’s where he gets that smug, shit-eating grin from.

People who believe that someone else is responsible for their successes and failures become helpless and hopeless victims. It is as if Obama is taking back the hope and offering hopelessness, as if “yes I can” is now, “no I can’t”. People who feel that their conditions are determined by their own hard work and persistence are better off and don’t give up so easily.

He talked about ... “it is not because your were smart, there are a lot of smart people.” He mentioned, “it is not because you worked hard. There are a lot of hard workers.” He failed to mention ... RISK TAKERS. Yes, there are not a lot of risk takers. For a person to take their hard earned money, invest it, and not only work harder, but longer. That is how these people make it. You would be hard pressed to find a successful person who worked 40 hours a week and put little investment into that turns out to be successful at anything other than what they put their time and money into. It is amazing that when Obama is reading a teleprompter that is filled with words written FOR him you get a totally different picture then when he speaks from his heart and talks about the BS that he truly believes. Things that don’t work but he does not realize it because he NEVER put it into practice.

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posted on 07/18/2012 10:47:27 AM PDT
by Why So Serious
(There is no cure for stupidity!!!)

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